Re: Kernel doesn't free Cached Memory

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 08:27 -0300, Vinicius wrote:
[...]
>    I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, this 
> server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. When I stop 
> this applications, the kernel doesn't free memory (the  memory still in use) 
> and the server cache lots of memory (~27GB). When I start this applications, 
> the kernel sends  "Out of Memory" messages and kill some random 
> applications. 
> 
>    Anyone know how can I reduce the kernel cached memory on RHEL 3 (kernel 
> 2.4.21-32.ELsmp - Trial version)? There is a way to reduce the kernel cached 
> memory utilization? 

Probably RedHat's support can answer this for RHEL 3.

	Bernd
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